August 30, 2005
December 15, 2004
September 21, 2004
Community infrastructure
Discussion on how to clean up user management and integrate various systems coming online shortly.
Hi Lucky,
Thanks for offer to consider our LDAP pickle. I've tried to map out what I'm looking for as to LDAP with the attached JPEG.
Essentially I'd like to migrate a small user database to LDAP and have the technologies marked in light grey authenticate to that instead of what they use currently.
i.e.
Apache - flat file managed by htpasswd
MoveableType - MySQL table
At the moment it'd only for in-house use (a virtual team working on a project described in the PDF) but we need to expand this out to a wider group over time (e.g. beta testers, online community members).
I'm assuming LDAP is the recommended option but happy to hear of any alternative options. This is a fledgling film company, no IT powerhouse, so ideally the setup will be something simple and standard.
August 31, 2004
Preliminary design document
Preliminary DVD design document for Sanctuary
See Wiki page for updates and latest version
August 26, 2004
Interactivity in a nutshell
Look up at the sky
Now move round the screen
See like the hero
Fly round the scene
I wrote this while I was writing the funding application as a simple reminder of what it is I want to do. It still applies so I thought I'd better blog it.
July 05, 2004
Interactive design document
Gamasutra - Features "Creating a Great Design Document" [09.12.97]
July 01, 2004
Meeting with Robert Bowerman
My notes from the 20040603 meeting.
Robert recommends we check out:
TWiki - A Web Based Collaboration Platform for any documentation and engineering projects. There seem to be a lot of positive case studies out there.
Write Wikipedia articles on re-mixable films, mod films, mod and add links from existing entries.
Use the Mailman listserver in the lead up to the community build.
Don't neglect off-site backups. To discuss with MattP for exchange of media.
Research enterprise message bus architecture for scalable number of peer connections. You register available message types by publishing these to the bus. Other systems subscribe to the bus. It sounds like this could one way to organise references to MODs and film assets not hosted by modfilms.
E.g. openadaptor™ is a Java/XML-based software platform which allows for rapid business system integration with little or no custom programming.
Robert is going to contact a MOD community of 17 year-olds he knows of to sound them out about freelance sysadmin work and involvement in community projects.
Sites to help drive traffic to modfilms re. programmer role -
http://metafilter.org/http://www.rense.com
http://www.commondreams.org/
http://www.saintsservers.com/
http://www.192.com
May 12, 2004
Messageboard systems
Messageboard systems for evaluation:
Invisionboard (MoveableType)
VBulletin (VJforumsl)
PHPnuke
Ikonboard
phpBB (Arkaos)
May 09, 2004
RIG formats
The creative framework defined by the RIG covers the following file types (formats):
text
2D image
3D model
animation
video
audio
May 07, 2004
Fun (and movie-related!) use of machine-readable text
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/oracle/
This site operates the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon (or any other actor, for that matter), by sourcing the archives of the IMDb (http://imdb.com). Follow the How it works link towards the bottom of the page for an explanation of the mechanics.
May 04, 2004
The Pot vs The Plate
Two analogies for how the RIG operates.
1) The Pot
In which the RIG acts as a planter, facilitating the growth of new offshoot products from a fertile story universe which can be delivered on-the-fly by a proprietary engine.
2) The Plate
In which the RIG acts as a glorified sandwich maker. For cinema, we have a feast. On console (or desktop) the creative framework encourages play through collaboratively built open sample applications - the healthy interactive option. For most participants, interaction will be strictly limited - grab a few favourite bits and make your own sandwich.
April 28, 2004
RDF vs RULEML
This caught my eye on Slashdot - a thread on the virtues or vapourware of RDF with a comment favouring RULEML as the basis of a Semantic Web application like the RIG.
April 19, 2004
Why Meta-data is important
Massive: The future of Weblogging is some background as to why next generation media has to be described in machine-readable terms to be sustainable.
February 26, 2004
June 12, 2003
MOD the movies
An abstract proposal, MOD the movies - sustaining the story through live performance file, submitted for http://www.virtualstorytelling.com/ICVS2003/
